"The Sorrows Of Young Werther"- C or D?

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I can't stand it. Goethe was a corny indie motherfucker.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 30 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, that one is a bit over-the-top, to say the least.

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i like goethe, but werther is, indeed, an overly self-referential, whining emo kid. still a good book, though.

― justin s., Monday, 31 March 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

classic for supposedly inspiring a lot of 18th century German emo kids to off themselves, but the book itself's a bit redundant nowadays.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

if i remember correctly, goethe pretty much disowned werther when he grew older (heh heh, when he grew up!) it also inspired, among others, schiller and chateaubriand, both of whom also went through the emo kid-turned-elder statesmen phase.

so then, is goethe the andy partridge of european lit. -- which would make werther his white music and faust his skylarking?

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"is goethe the andy partridge of european lit?" = grebtest q.asked in hist.o'hum.cult.ectect

(= it made me larf out loud briefly)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 31 March 2003 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

i'm convinced goethe conceived this all as one big joke to see if you'll kill yourself before werther does.

― modernism, Monday, 9 February 2009 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

One of my favorite Daniel Pinkwater throwaway jokes is the reference to a character having written an extremely poorly-received book called The Sorrows of Young Werewolf.

― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Monday, 9 February 2009 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

i'm a little out-of-touch with the young people these days, so maybe someone with their finger more on the pulse of contemporary youth culture can fill me in - is it still considered "cool" ("dope," "off of the chain," whatever is the parlance) among the teen and teen-minded set to off oneself over one's unrequited love of a married woman?

― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

i wd prefer to consider it "dude needs to man the fuck up" shit but I'm old so who knows?

― My booze, he weighs a ton (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 March 2010 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

Was just reading about how Werther started a huge memorabilia industry + moral panic about copycat suicides in 18th Century England.

― My booze, he weighs a ton (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 March 2010 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

goethe more like gemothe right

cause, emo

― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

Have you ever been so devastated about a breakup that you considered suicide?

― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 March 2010 18:34 (sixteen years ago)

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